[rchiniquy]

Thanks for chiming in, media from London. Is it possible to write about this issue from a far-away or recently-arrived perspective?

Worrying about this a decade or two sooner would've been more timely. The city changed dramatically from the late 90s to early 00s. We had a lull in change during the macroeconomic recession, but now the machine is getting back up to speed.

I've been increasingly sad over the years as my friends who are artists, librarians, dancers, therapists, social workers, statisticians, teachers, writers, musicians, accountants, anything other than software engineers, have been falling away from the Bay because it is just so expensive.

Rapid growth can apparently kill anything. IMO it's likely too late to do anything for San Francisco. There's still time to worry about Oakland though.

[rchiniquy]

btw, since this Guardian article uses the "Compare Oakland to Brooklyn" trope, here's a great article putting change in Oakland into a historical context: http://nextcity.org/features/view/oakland-gentrification-lib...